Anjie Wang1,2, Haining Jiao1,2,*, Zhichao Chen1,2,*, Jie Yang1,2
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.3, pp. 5773-5790, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.066852
- 30 July 2025
Abstract With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and big data, waste-sorting systems must balance high accuracy, low latency, and resource efficiency. This paper presents an edge-friendly intelligent waste-sorting system that integrates a lightweight visual neural network, a pentagonal-trajectory robotic arm, and IoT connectivity to meet the requirements of real-time response and high accuracy. A lightweight object detection model, YOLO-WasNet (You Only Look Once for Waste Sorting Network), is proposed to optimize performance on edge devices. YOLO-WasNet adopts a lightweight backbone, applies Spatial Pyramid Pooling-Fast (SPPF) and Convolutional Block Attention Module… More >